Diving into PANIA’s World
In the current climate of Australia’s R&B music scene, Naarm-based artist PANIA has solidified herself as one of the most prominent names on the rise. With her debut EP out now, we spoke to her about the project, and the importance of being as human as possible during its creation process.
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Acclaim Digital Cover 025: Kenny Beats
The mega-producer traverses the tumultuous terrain of family ties as he arrives at his debut album, finding acceptance in the adversity, the beauty in the imperfections, and the winding paths to love along the way. For our latest Digital Cover, we spoke to Kenny Beats to find out more.
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Joyce Wrice Finds a Motive Amongst the Mayhem
Since debuting her first album Overgrown in the midst of the pandemic, Joyce Wrice tells us she’s ready to release herself from the bounds of her last piece of work and take her sound to the next level. We caught up with the LA-based artist to talk about her new EP Motive, and how everything came to be.
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Hau Latukefu: A King’s Journey
From Queanbeyan, to Sydney, to the Triple J airwaves, Hau has successfully allowed his voice to traverse across different music plains for decades. Pioneering an authentic Australian sound in hip-hop, we sat down with the Tongan musician to reflect on his life in the industry and the bits in between, as reflected in his memoir KING: Life, Death & Hip Hop.
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Bodega Collective and Alizé: Building Towards a Collaborative Creative Culture
Bodega Collective's Peter Sabbagh talks us through the origins of this collaboration with the brand behind our favourite blue drink, and how it resulted in a revamped studio, revealing content series, and the framework for a refreshing live event.
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MAVI: Grinning Through the Grim
The North Carolina rapper’s sophomore album is an internal journey of tragedy, traversing adversity through food-for-thought raps. He talks us through the grief that guided him to this point, and how it’ll propel him to his penultimate destiny.
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Mistakes and Growing Pains With 24kGoldn
Grappling the music world at just 21, LA-based artist 24kGoldn reassures us that this is just the beginning. On his first visit to Australia for the Listen Out Festival, we caught him in the midst of it all to discuss shoeys, struggles with vulnerability, growing up, and being your authentic self.
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Customising Your Own Hell With Plea Unit
Consisting of EndlessProwl behind the boards, alongside the bars of Teether and Bayang (tha Bushranger), Plea Unit is a project that pairs otherworldly visuals and off-kilter, in-your-face rap music. The trio talks us through their latest EP, forming during COVID, and how scary can become silly.
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Changing the Trajectory With Church & AP
Before closing out their first Australia tour in Sydney, Auckland rap duo Church & AP and producer Dera Meelan, sat down with us to touch on their musical upbringings, political consciousness, and the next era of creative endeavours to come.
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Jesswar is Living Big
Jesswar talks us through undergoing a rebirth through creation, the power in using nature as a muse, and living big on the eve of their debut mixtape, Life’s Short, Live big.
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Betting Against the Odds With Tommy Gunn
The Hong Kong-born, Sydney-based artist talks us through his debut EP Bet On Me, the discipline that goes into songwriting, and representing his community through music.
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RECAP: JID, JessB and Agung Mango Shut Down Sydney for Ksubi’s 23rd Bday Event
Australian brand Ksubi celebrated 23 years in the game on Wednesday with a party at their Sydney HQ featuring a star-studded lineup.
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Four Songs: A Calming Companion from Blood Orange
Dev Hynes delivers a straightforward dose of Blood Orange smoothness, but this time the pit stops, personal takeaways, and pulsating sounds are different.
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Acclaim Digital Cover 024: BBGB
Our latest digital cover features Sydney collective BBGB. The group explains their mission to uplift and empower their community, tackle adversity, and navigate their place in so-called Australia.
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